[From article]: Unlike the inferences of a vicious Fielding that the critics draw from Shamela or a gloomy Fielding from Jonathan Wild, those from Joseph Andrews uniformly depict him as a cheerful man highly conscious of ...

[From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely ...

Except when questions of its morality got in the way of dispassionate criticism, as they did for Richardson, Johnson, and Hawkins, Tom Jones has continually been recognized as a masterpiece of design. As early as 1834 such ...

[From article]: Structured by a series of juxtaposed images, A.E. Housman’s Bredon Hill articulates in a tautly symbolic way some of the elemental themes of A Shropshire Lad (1896), the book of poems in which it appears.